Archive for the ‘Belfast’ Category
A Little Miracle
Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, tagged accident, Belfast, bicycle, bike, cycling on September 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Bet
Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, Media, Politics, Northern Ireland, tagged Bet, Collins, Eoghan, Harris, Jude on February 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Two of my occasional colleagues on media projects and panels will have a little business to settle today. When Eoghan Harris visited the West Belfast festival he took a wager from Jude Collins. Eoghan had said that Sinn Fein would lose all its seats to Fianna Fail in the next Dail General Election, the one [...]
A Sense of Belfast
Posted in Belfast on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Institute of Lifelong Learning asked me to talk to a lunchtime group on the theme of A Sense of Place. I recorded it. For the benefit of the techies, I used the Sony bluetooth mic ECM-AW3 with the transmitter plugged into the mic socket of a Marantz pmd 620. There is obviously a limiter [...]
Not a Tout but a ‘Liability’
Posted in Belfast, Politics, Northern Ireland on October 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Half truths or worse from the IRA This week the commission for the location of victims remains has closed down its search in County Monaghan for the body of Gerry Evans. The search for the remains of the disappeared has been fruitful in some cases, hopeless in others; depending on the quality of information passed [...]
Dying Trees
Posted in Belfast on July 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I have done another wee slideshow, this time about trees in Belfast and how some of them, as above, are dying. Just click on the picture.
It’s Ask The People Day
Posted in Belfast, Religion on May 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A Walk Around Belfast
Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you are missing Belfast you might like to take a walk around it with me on my new slideshow, History Behind Bars, currently showing at The Street.
Double Identity
Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, Politics, Northern Ireland on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Brannigan’s new book, Where Are You Really From? recounts the life of a black boy born in Belfast who became a Republican activist. Is having two identities a freedom or a burden? That’s a question I explored with him and others in similar double identity situations.
Irish Graffiti
Posted in Belfast, Culture and Society, Politics, Northern Ireland on February 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Here is some graffiti I spotted in the last couple of days. Actually, the first one has been on a wall on the main Omagh Road out of Strabane for months. The bit I have deleted shows a car registration number, presumably an invitation to attack that car. You’d think the police would have moved [...]
A Shame and a Disgrace
Posted in Belfast, Politics, Northern Ireland on January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This piece was carried on the front page of the Belfast Telegraph on January 28, the day after Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen gave up mediating between Sinn Fein and the DUP on how and when to devolve policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly. (See also.) The British prime minister, Gordon Brown [...]
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This is the blog of my journalism and recordings, with some extracts from my books too. I tend to sound off on Northern Ireland Politics and Culture. Some of the work here will be recent journalism, articles that have appeared in the Belfast Telegraph or elsewhere, but there is a lot of material going back a couple of years now, so please hang around and browse. Malachi
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